Lone Cone Library

"Take a 2,000-mile journey with the pioneers that braved The Oregon Trail ... See rare photos, hear diary excerpts and watch stunning footage in this award-winning film, previously viewed on public television"--container.

As rumors of gold in California spread across the United States in 1848, Levi decides it is time to head west with Amelia, his young housewife, to stake their claim and build a better life. Against her better judgment, Amelia honors her husband's demands, leaving her home and family. Secretly, they join the last wagon caravan of the season dangerously late, leaving behind a string of bad debts. On the trail, they encounter unimaginable danger that...

2 documentary programs. The Oregon Trail is an account of America's longest and most famous pioneer trail, covering the reasons for going, the landscape crossed, and the experience as described in immigrants' diaries. The Pony Express describes the gamble that bankrupted the men who started it, and lasted only 19 months, but made a legend of its riders and provided a vital link between California and the Northern states at the start of the Civil War....

Early talking western in which a band of hardy pioneers struggles along the Oregon Trail.